A week after the Enforcement Directorate summoned US businessman Neville Roy Singham in the NewsClick case, the Delhi police has sought “financial” details of five companies linked to him in a letter to the US authorities. While claiming that the companies are linked to Singham, the ED has called the businessman “a contact person of the Communist Party of China, China”. The Indian Express cited unnamed sources as saying that the Delhi police’s Economic Offences Wing has asked specific questions to the US government, including details about the investors of the companies. Later, in a four-page rebuttal, Singham had called the NYT article “misleading” and an “innuendo-laden hit piece”. In the run-up to Purkayastha and Chakraborty’s arrests, the Delhi police had raided over 30 locations and questioned about 50 journalists linked to NewsClick and seized their electronic devices.

Source: Indian Express November 23, 2023 22:02 UTC